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Fence In

Definitions: Fence In

Fence In

Verb

1. Enclose with a fence; "we fenced in our yard".

2. Surround with a wall in order to fortify.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Fence In

Synonyms: fence (v), palisade (v), surround (v), wall (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Fence In

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Circumscription

Verb: circumscribe, limit, bound, confine, inclose; surround; compass about; imprison; (restrain); hedge in, wall in, rail in; fence round, fence in,hedge round; picket; corral.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Fence In

English words defined with "fence in": backstopFagin, fence, Fence roofgateon the fencepost hole, postholeThe Adversary, To take inundecided. (references)
Specialty definitions using "fence in": Back and EdgeFARMWORKER, FIELD CROP I, Fence, FENCE-ERECTOR SUPERVISORGLIRICIDIA SEPIUM, GNAPHALIUM ELEGANS, GNAPHALIUM SPICATUM, GNETUM LEYBOLDIIout-of-bandPito de peronilla, PLANT, prop wallSHOP SUPERVISOR, SUPERVISOR, FENCE MANUFACTURETIRE SETTER, TRICHANTHERAWire. (references)
Etymologies containing "fence in": septum. (references)

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Photo Album: Fence In

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Cattle being herded by cowboys on horseback. Fence in the foreground.Credit: Unknown.

Barn and other buildings behind fence in Georgia.Credit: Library of Congress.

African American man standing at tall picket fence in front of house.Credit: Library of Congress.

A colonial fence in Alexandria.Credit: Library of Congress.

Cactus fence in Salamanca, Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress.

Rail fence in San Juan County, Colorado.Credit: Library of Congress.

Fruit jars being sterilized on old lady Graham's back fence in berry season. Near Conway, Arkansas. "We just gather and can peas, beans, berries, and sausage when we butcher the hogs in the winter. We put up seventy-five quarts of berries, sixty of beans,.Credit: Library of Congress.

1917-1918, reference prints from negatives. Stream flowing through field with fence in foreground.Credit: Library of Congress.

Reference prints, 1919-1920, numbers 2133-2377. Buggy on road; Field with two trees and rock fence in foreground.Credit: Library of Congress.

Man on horse jumping fence in fox hunt in Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Fence In

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Fence in gardens to keep out wild animals. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fence In

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fence in picket vermont

2

fence in jersey new picket wood

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fence In

Language Translations for "fence in"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rrethoj (begird, beleaguer, beset, besiege, border on, circle, circumscribe, circumvent, close in, close on, compass, embosom, embower, encircle, enclose, encompass, engird, engirdle, entwine, envelop, environ, flank, fold, gird, girdle, hedge in, hem, inclose, invest, lap, leaguer, pocket, rail, rim, ring, round up, span, surround, wreathe), gardhoj (block, encompass, fence, hedge, hinder, pale, picket, piquet, rail). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ограждам (circumscribe, enclose, fence, fringe, hedge, hem, rail, roll up), заграждам (contain, edge, encircle, enclose, encompass, environ, fence, flank, inclose, lock in, rail, shut in, stem, stop, throw around, throw round). (various references)

   

Czech

  

oplotit (enclose, fence), ohradit (enclose, fence, fence off, Park, rail in, wall). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

afrasteren (fence off, rail in, rail off). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kradi (fence off, rail in, rail off). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ympäröidä jokin aidalla. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

ôffreedzje (fence off, rail in, rail off). (various references)

   

German

  

vergattern (fence off, instruct, punish), umfrieden (close in, enclose, wall in), einzäunen (corral, enclose, fence, rail in, to corral). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bekerít (encompass, hunt down, mure, surround, to circumvent, to close in, to encircle, to enclose, to encompass, to fence, to fence in, to gird, to hedge in, to hem in, to hunt down, to lay down, to rail). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

girða af (fence off, rail in, rail off), afgirða (fence off, rail in, rail off). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

塀'巡らす (to fence in, to surround with a wall). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

へい'めぐらす (to fence in, to surround with a wall). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

encefay inay

   

Russian 

  

огородить, загородить (enclose, inclose). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zagraditi (enclose), ograditi (enclose, hedge, partition off, surround). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sätta upp stängsel kring (fence off), omgärda (enclose, fence off, inclose), kringgärda (circumscribe), inhägna (enclose, fence off, hedge, inclose). (various references)

   

Thai

  

กั้น"้วยรั้ว, จำกั" (bound, chain down, chain to, circumscribe, clamp down on, limit, limiting, localize, tie). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kilitlemek (close, fasten, fasten up, interlock, key, key in, key on, lock, lock up, make fast, shut up, turn the key), kapamak (block, block up, bung up, close, confine, coop, coop in, coop up, cover, cover in, encase, hang up, obstruct, obturate, occlude, seal, shut, shut down, shut in, shut out, shut to, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, top, turn off, turn out, wind up, wipe out), çit ile çevirmek (enclose, fence, hedge, hedge in, hedge round, pale in, palisade). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Fence In

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-i-n-n"

-1 letter: fennec.

-2 letters: fence, niece.

-3 letters: cine, fice, fine, neif, nene, nice, nine.

-4 letters: cee, fee, fen, fie, fin, ice, inn, nee.

-5 letters: ef, en, if, in, ne.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-i-n-n"
 

+2 letters: inference, influence, refencing, refinance.

 

+3 letters: beneficent, beneficing, confidence, fescennine, greenfinch, inferences, influenced, influences, prefinance, refinanced, refinances, uninfected.

 

+4 letters: benefaction, beneficence, confidences, confinement, enfranchise, fancinesses, freelancing, inefficient, infrequence, infrequency, munificence, noninfected, prefinanced, prefinances, reenforcing, referencing, reinfecting, reinfection, uninflected.

 

+5 letters: benefactions, beneficences, beneficently, confectioner, conferencing, conferential, confinements, differencing, enfranchised, enfranchises, frankincense, genuflecting, genuflection, greenfinches, indifference, indifferency, inefficiency, inefficients, infrequences, interference, magnificence, munificences, noncertified, noneffective, nonfluencies, noninfective, noninfluence, reinfections, uninfluenced, unreinforced.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Fence In


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 65 6E 63 65      49 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 00100000 01001001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#101 &#32 &#73 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0065 006E 0063 0065      0049 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

407180697124380

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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